Experiments of Discovery Services Interconnection

Abstract

This paper presents a platform called IOTA, an open implementation of the EPCglobal architecture. It aims to collect and to store events about object involving in a given supply chain. Iota uses a Petri net simulator to emulate the lower layers including the RFID readers. Iota focuses on the design of a non centralized Discovery Services and experiments in a real network environment. This paper presents the experiments of a solution for distributed Discovery Services and its impact on the overall architecture in terms of performance issues.